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September 2018

September 24, 2018

Banner-burning priest booted from his Chicago church

Following our report that a rainbow banner had been burned by Catholic parishioners acting on...

September 24, 2018

UK TV programme debates gender of a hypothetical deity

Former Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe described as 'nonsense' a suggestion that the Church of England...

September 24, 2018

More shocking facts emerge from Pennsylvania abuse probe

More shocking revelations are emerging from the Pennsylvania grand jury investigation into Catholic Church abuse....

September 20, 2018

Catholic bigots indulge in a petty act of banner burning

An artefact that connected a Chicago Catholic priest with the church in which he served...

September 18, 2018

Commies planted paedophiles in the Roman Catholic Church

Iben Thranholm, a right-wing religious extremist from Denmark, is convinced that sexual abuse scandals engulfing...

September 14, 2018

Lib Dems in Scotland get cold feet over religious education

A headline last week in The Scottish Catholic Observer read 'Lib Dems to consider adopting...

September 12, 2018

Bleak picture of Catholic abuse revealed in new German probe

A sexual abuse commission funded by the German Bishops' Conference found that 3,677 mostly male...

September 08, 2018

Yet another probe into Catholic cruelty is to be launched in US

Vermont Attorney General T J Donovan, above, announced yesterday (Friday) that officials in Burlington plan...

September 07, 2018

NY probe into Catholic sex abuse blasted by Bill Donohue

News that the New York Attorney General’s office, headed by Barbara Underwood, has issued subpoenas...

September 05, 2018

Flanders politician re-ignites religious broadcasting debate

Last year Sven Gatz, above, Minister for Media in Flanders, tried unsuccessfully to abolish religious...

September 01, 2018

Catholic Church in Australia is far wealthier than it claimed

An investigation, published this week, reveals that the Catholic Church in Australia concealed its massive...

August 2018

August 28, 2018

Pope slammed for advocating psychiatry for young gays

On his way back from his bruising visit to Ireland, a beleaguered Pope Francis was...

August 27, 2018

The standards of the day

Since the Pope’s weekend in Ireland is in the news, including here, I thought it...

August 27, 2018

Thousands rally against Pope's visit to a very different Ireland

When Pope John II came to Ireland in 1979 he was given rock star treatment...

August 26, 2018

Priests who cover up sexual abuse are 'shit' says the Pope

Pope Francis referred to those who cover up abuse in the Catholic Church as 'caca'...

August 24, 2018

Catholic reporter barred from family conference in Dublin

Attendees at a conference set up as an alternative to the World Meeting of Families...

August 20, 2018

Ireland: drive-thru confessional pokes fun at Catholic Church

An enormous drive-thru confessional has been erected in Dublin to coincide with the Pope's visit...

August 18, 2018

'Catholic Church must stop ordaining homosexual men'

Daniel Mattson, author of Why I don’t Call Myself Gay: How I Reclaimed My Sexual...

August 16, 2018

New website names Catholic clergy who covered up abuse

A newly-launched website – ComplicitClergy.com – identifies ten American bishops who 'should have known' about...

August 15, 2018

Awful week for the Vatican as more abuse allegations surface

The iter sabbati began with news that in Chile authorities raided the headquarters of the...

August 15, 2018

Argentina: Catholics urged to quit church after abortion vote

Last week, despite massive demonstrations in support abortion in Argentina, the country's Senate voted against...

August 09, 2018

'Catholic Church is woefully incapable of policing itself'

That was the reaction of lawyer Richard Scorer to a report published today about the 'appalling'...

August 09, 2018

Pro-gay priest WILL speak at WMF despite Catholic hysteria

Despite the fact that at least two petitions are demanding that Fr James Martin –...

August 08, 2018

Nuns who expelled a Ugandan from a shelter face a backlash

A gay rights organisation in Holland – Rozelinks – announced on Facebook that it was...

August 07, 2018

Irish PM to tackle Pope over LGBT issues and clerical abuse

When Pope Francis arrives to in Ireland on August 25 for the Vatican-sponsored World Meeting...

July 2018

July 28, 2018

Clerical abuse: another senior Catholic leaves in disgrace

Cardinal Theodore McCarrick – one of the most prominent members the American Catholic hierarchy – has...

July 24, 2018

Pride events 'belittle' Catholic Church & make it look foolish

A pro-gay Scottish priest has incurred the wrath of the Bishop of Motherwell, Joseph Toal,...

July 22, 2018

Sacking of priest signals the end of Scottish Christianity

That's the view of a student at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) which sacked anti-gay Catholic...

July 21, 2018

Big cash stash is found in Michigan priest's luxury home

Michigan State police say they discovered $63,000 hidden above ceiling tiles in the mansion of...

July 19, 2018

New rule sends shock waves through consecrated virgins

Because an increasing number of Catholic women apparently want to hitch themselves to Jesus, the...